1. Watch One of the 1 Minute Videos from 6 Grados De Separación: México Conectado Con El Mundo

Every week you have to choose one of these activities from the list below and write a description of 5-7 sentences in SPANISH describing the activity. The description must include which activity you chose, if you liked it, what you learned and if you had any difficulty with it. The description must be written on your edmodo in a post. You must choose a different activity every week. Once you have completed ten different activities you can then repeat. Your post must be uploaded on Edmodo every Monday before class begins in order to receive full credit.

1. Watch one of the 1 minute videos from "6 grados de separación: México conectado con el mundo". http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL9E334AAC380C28D2&v=Dq7xcc2D44kWrite a summary and include some images. 2. Look through these videos, http://spanishear.com/lessons/index.html read the questions, choose a few that interest you and listen to three of these videos and write a summary about what you heard. 3. Explore Twitter Trends Map http://trendsmap.com focus on the Spanish speaking countries. Read some of the popular #s or @ people and write about what you see. 4. "Like" this Facebook page: 1001 Reasons to learn Spanish . Read some of the posts throughout the week and write about some of the ones that interested you the most. Try to link pictures and/or links. 5. Look at some of the Memes en Español (click here) http://mememartes.tumblr.com. Answer the questions for three of the memes. Look under the pictures to find the questions. Post the answers and a picture of the memes on the wiki. 6. Listen to Spanish-language radio (Pandora or batanga) for one hour (music) or 30 minutes (talk). 7. Do a cloze activity (fill in the blanks) for one of the songs here http://zachary- jones.com/zambombazo/clozeline/clozeline-2013/

8. Play a video game in Spanish for one hour. 9. Read and listen to an article on Veinte Mundos. 10. Watch a Spanish telenovela for one hour. 11. Watch MTVTres for one hour 12. Change your facebook language to Spanish and play on Facebook for an hour. 13. Read a Spanish-language magazine for 30 minutes (may be online). Suggestions: 1.1 El Gancho http://www.elgancho.es/tu-ciudad 2 Tú en línea http://www.tuenlinea.com \Caras México http://www.caras.com.mx Veinte Mundos http://www.veintemundos.com/en/library/ People en español

14. Read/listen to Spanish news on line. Suggestions: BBC Mundo CNN México Univisión Noticias

15. Play on one or more corporate Spanish-language websites for 45 minutes, such as: McDonald's Harry Potter Major League Baseball 16. Read a book in Spanish for 30 minute. 17. Change your cell phone or mp3 player’s language to Spanish for an entire week. 18. Read the directions in Spanish of seven items in your house (e.g. detergent). 19. Read the last 50 tweets using a Twitter hashtag (#) for a Latin- American country or city. Make sure you Twitter settings are to Spanish for this. 20. Read the last 30 tweets using a Twitter hashtag and a word in Spanish. Make sure you Twitter settings are to Spanish for this. 21. Read the last 30 Spanish-language tweets by one or more Spanish- speaking artists or politicians on Twitter, such as Natalia Lafourcade, Juanes, Chocquibtown or Julieta Venegas. Make sure you Twitter settings are to Spanish for this. 22. Read an article about a famous Latino musician or politician in Spanish on Wikipedia. 23. Watch 3 videoclips on sports and 3 videoclips on current news on Univisión. 24. Compile a list of 30 words involving the profession you hope to have, on 3×5 cards for your review and post it on edmodo. 25. Explore the Spanish-language section of Barnes & Noble (music, kids’ books, and/or adult books) for 30 minutes and find two things you would like to own. 26. Conversar (o ‘chatear’) en español con alguien por 30 minutos. 27. Explore iTunes Latino store and iTunes essentials for 30 minutes & find 2 albums or 5 songs you would like to own. 28. Using post-it notes, post-it 10 items in your house that you don’t know the word for and leave it there for a week, then report to me from memory what all the items were. 29. Complete a song on lyricstraining.com. and bring me the results. 30. Go to a Latino restaurant and using your phone, or flipvideo camera, record the meal/food/decorations with your commentary in Spanish. 31. Do one of these movie related http://zachary- jones.com/zambombazo/category/cine/ activities. 32. Do one of the activities having to do with commercials in Spanish here http://zachary-jones.com/zambombazo/category/publicidad/ 33. Find a commercial in Spanish. Transcribe it and email it to me with a link. If it is good, I will use it for class. 34. Watch a movie in Spanish. Write a short summary. 35. Choose a Spanish speaking place that you would like to investigate. Find a hotel, what type of activities you could do there, and what you could see there. Tweet links to the information you find. 36. Find a famous work of art by a Spanish speaking artist. Post a picture of it. Write 4-6 sentences describing what you see and a 4-6 sentences about the artist. **Have another idea/suggestion? Please see me OR email me for approval before completing it.